But reality says that if I don't need it, it doesn't matter how deep the discount it. (Right, honey?)
Like the ad I saw last week -
2 for 1!!
Just what Dad wants for Father's Day!!
Just what Dad wants for Father's Day!!
What were they selling? Recliners. You know, the oversized chairs that lay back and (depending on your budget and your Dad) vibrate, play music, cool your canned drinks and drive you to the airport.
Does Dad really want TWO recliners? How would that work? One for each foot? And does everyone really have the floor space for TWO recliners for Dad?
I thought that was really the all-time silliest idea I'd seen spring from the current economy (not including any government "recovery" plans, of course) until I saw this:
This is an honest to goodness sign on a road out of my town.
Aren't cemeteries in a "sure thing" market? Like gasoline or groceries? "The only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes"? Somehow the idea of a cemetery site sale is oddly disturbing to me. And hysterically funny, too. Sort of like having the giggles at a funeral.
It's a great sale, though ... (what do you think, honey?)
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Oh that is funny. I have my own version ... after sitting through a very impressive sales pitch regarding a multi-use machine that copies, prints, faxes, scans, emails and folds laundry, in black and white AND in colour ... "It does everything - you won't need anything else" ... the final sales line was...
"And if you buy it, we'll throw in this 2nd printer for free, worth whatever-amount-of-money"
I asked if the first machine was so great, why I would need the 2nd one, and could I please have the money instead. They acknowledged sheepishly that my question made perfect sense, the deal didn't, but no, I couldn't have the money instead.
So we gave the 2nd printer away.
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